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Tuesday, April 8, 2014 - 10:30am - 11:30am
Test Management
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Do You See What I See? NEW

Managing a software project is challenging. Managers often need to deal with overwhelming amounts of data and detail but they must also be able to see the big picture at a glance. What can testers do to help? Excellent testing involves composing, editing, narrating, and justifying a story about the product, about the testing, and about the quality of the testing. However, telling a good story doesn't just depend on the raw data; it depends on representing, organizing, and displaying information to illuminate key points, highlight trends, and show variation. Michael Bolton takes you on a tour of approaches to illustrating the testing story, designed to keep the entire project team informed of product status and testing activity, to foster discovery and productive conversation, and to help managers ask better questions and get better answers.

Michael Bolton, DevelopSense

Tester, consultant, and trainer Michael Bolton is the co-author (with James Bach) of Rapid Software Testing, a course that presents a methodology and mindset for testing software expertly in uncertain conditions and under extreme time pressure. Michael is a leader in the context-driven software testing movement, with twenty years of experience testing, developing, managing, and writing about software. Currently, he leads DevelopSense, a Toronto-based consultancy.

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